Trump ordered that the term Homo sapiens be changed to Hetero sapiens. In history books and on websites, the airplane from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima will no longer be identified as the Enola Gay, but rather the Enola Straight. Trump also ordered billionaire Mark Cuban, who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, to change his name to Mark American. If he does not do so, he will be charged with terrorism.   read more

Robert Kaluza, described as a top employee with BP, refused to testify this week before a federal inquiry into the Deepwater Horizon accident, which could be a sign that the U.S. Department of Justice will pursue a criminal liability case against ...   read more

S. Elizabeth (Liz) Birnbaum, director of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) since July 14, 2009, became the first leading official in the Obama administration to lose her job over the federal government’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil s...   read more

The final form of the financial regulation bill in Congress is in the hands of a conference committee that must reconcile competing versions of the legislation. Appointed from the Senate to the committee are 12 senators who have received $57 milli...   read more

The bizarreness of this story is best captured in the official title of the lawsuit: United States v. One Polished Diamond Weighing Approximately 68 Carats. Yes, the federal government is suing an inanimate object—granted a very expensive inanimat...   read more

Security forces in Jamaica spent most of this week shooting up a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to capture drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke, wanted in the United States on gun and narcotics charges. Acting on a longstanding extradition...   read more

Two days before the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced that the Deepwater Horizon accident had easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez disaster as the nation’s worst-ever oil spill, U.S. Coast Guard representative Edward Stanton downplayed the serio...   read more

Unable to deploy troops in Pakistan, but still in need of ways to transport weapons across it and into Afghanistan, the U.S. government is looking for defense contractors who can take on the task of logistical support through Pakistani territory. ...   read more

If it becomes law, the financial reform legislation in Congress will impose a number of significant changes affecting how Wall Street operates. It would establish a new agency to oversee consumer financial products, create a council to monitor sys...   read more

Racial profiling is a problem for police even in cases when they accidentally shoot a colleague. A task force assembled by the governor of New York, David Paterson, found that law enforcement across the country has mistaken minority officers as cr...   read more

George Washington was not only America’s first president, but possibly its richest, too. A calculation of the net worth of each U.S. president in 2010 dollars shows Washington would have had a personal net worth today of more than $500 million. ...   read more

Following previous investigations that questioned the agency’s ethical performance, a new inspector general report has revealed that employees of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) in Louisiana committed serious transgressions while overseeing ...   read more

Thanks to the new healthcare reform law, Americans will have the choice of keeping their children on their insurance plans until age 26—unless the policyholder happens to be in the military, where adult child coverage stops at 21, or 23 if the chi...   read more

Concerned over where the matter might lead, the U.S. Department of Justice is fighting a Freedom of Information Act request to release the names of more than 9,200 people who were denied pardons by President George W. Bush.   The Justice Departm...   read more

Service in the armed forces is no guarantee for legal immigrants to remain in the United States if they break the law. There are approximately 3,000 to 4,000 veterans awaiting deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is using a 19...   read more

Anger towards Congress has escalated into considerably more threats against senators and representatives. Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer told Politico that threats were up 300% during the opening months of 2010.   Those receiving death ...   read more

Afghanistan now is not only the costliest of America’s two wars, but also the more demanding in terms of troops. The Department of Defense officially announced this week that more soldiers are currently serving in Afghanistan than in Iraq, a first...   read more